My little corner of the world

quiet about 911 because if i start thinking about it a vein jumps out on my forehead

killed off one of your titleship characters because you didn't wanted to pay the actor more money using the excuse of realism but starts the next season with a costly cgi-heavy storyline because you sent your emergency service characters to literally space. implied one man might be in love with another for fun and profit and then you decide to sideline their entire friendship in the next season because now there's an elephant every time they're in the same room and you don't want to add more gay people to your show. also, it can't focus on romance! except we're going to make a het couple who never interacted before canon. speaking about that: lets return two child characters as now adults except the brother gets the main character treatment and 50% of new storylines and the main sister only gets brought in when her brother or boyfriend are jealous. inumerable hiatuses throughout the episodes killing any type of consistency or momentum in the storylines. the big finale of the season, which, again, started in space, is about the russian mob. a main character gets a son in the last two episodes. he also was struggling with addiction like two episodes ago, but it's all right now. and one of the other main characters also had a chronic illness. but she's also alright now! don't you like our character heavy ensemble show :)

literally all that it would take to eliminate queerbaiting accusations forever is for eddie to have a feelings realization and then it IMMEDIATELY is just pure “will they/won’t they” tension between a guy who has rocked his own world with the realization of feelings he never considered possible and another guy who abjectly denied feelings were even possible because the first guy was sooo straight it would be ridiculous to want that like COOOOME ONNNN embrace the tropes this is what peak tv romance is made of

I think we need a new word for whatever the fuck Tim is doing. Queerbating is not the correct thing here. There has to be a new term for the psychological horrors of a showrunner with the attention span of a peanut trying to ignore the fact that the story he wrote has only one way out. He put himself there, and he keeps throwing blankets over the elephant to pretend it hasn't been addressed already.

Like, what do you call it when the showrunner refuses to do it even tho the elephant was addressed, and the actors are just saying fuck it and wearing matching outfits, and demanding the other's involvement in plots, and roleplaying what the getting together could look like at a con, and saying they don't want someone to be introduced just to be a love interest?

tim minear if you're reading this i have a suggestion. just commit to buddie. you literally won't lose anything